I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - ther...
Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body....
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
America's a very traumatized society.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.